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What is Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS)?
What is Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS)?
PBIS is a process for creating school environments that are more predictable and effective for achieving adacemic and social goals. A key strategy of the PBIS process is prevention. The majority of students follow the school's expectations, and should be acknowledged for their positive behavior. Through instruction, comprehension and regular practice, all teachers and staff members will use a consistent set of rules. PBIS is a research based strategy. Research shows that schools following the PBIS model recover thousands more hours of instruction time. PBIS improves social, emotional and academic outcomes for all students, including students with disabilities and students from underrepresented groups.
How is PBIS Different?
How is PBIS Different?
The program is focused on acknowledging students for consistent positive behavior. Throughout the year, we teach and reinforce our behavioral expectations for our students in all of our school settings. Staff habitually acknowledge positive students behavior, and name them. Staff respond to unexpected behaviors with a consistent set of strategies that are focused on the re-teaching of the expected behaviors.
What about Families?
What about Families?
Families are an important part of our PBIS implementation. We encourage parents to use the same expectations and rules that we teach and reinforce here at school. This common language creates consistency and a unified support for expected student behavior. Children thrive when they have consistent, predictable expectations and consequences.
NewBrook's Response to Unexpected Behaviors
NewBrook's Response to Unexpected Behaviors
Universal Supports-- Some unexpected behaviors are managed in the classroom through re-direction, a short conference with the student, or an in-class reset.
Tiered Supports-- At times, children need additional supports to manage their behavior. We plan for these supports, including the use of our Thinking and Feeling Room (TFR) as a place to reset, reflect and then make a plan to return to class.
Office Referral-- Occasionally, some unexpected behaviors result in an immediate office referral. Office managed behaviors include aggression, the use of profanity, chronic classroom disruptions, and potential bullying or harassment. Intervention and response strategies for office managed behaviors include time out, conference with student, parent contact, restitution, in-school suspension, and out-of-school suspension.
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